EIS-Tier Security
In the EIS tier, an application component requests a connection to an EIS resource. As part of this connection, the EIS may require a sign-on for the requester to access the resource. The application component provider has two choices for the design of the EIS sign-on:
In the container-managed sign-on approach, the application component lets the container take the responsibility of configuring and managing the EIS sign-on. The container determines the user name and password for establishing a connection to an EIS instance.
In the component-managed sign-on approach, the application component code manages EIS sign-on by including code that performs the sign-on process to an EIS.
Container-Managed Sign-On
In container-managed sign-on, ...
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